Israel starving Gaza as obligations heard at ICJ
- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has begun its second day of hearings into Israel’s humanitarian obligations to Palestinians, more than 50 days into Israel’s total blockage on aid entering the Gaza Strip.
- Top Palestinian official Ammar Hijazi has told judges that people are starving in Gaza where all UN-supported bakeries are shut as Israel uses humanitarian aid as “a weapon of war”, and nine of every 10 Palestinians have no access to safe drinking water.
- Amnesty International, a global rights group, has accused Israel of committing a “livestreamed genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza by forcibly displacing most of the population and deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe.
- Israeli attacks have killed at least 48 Palestinians on Monday across Gaza, with a tent camp for displaced people south of al-Mawasi, near Khan Younis, being one of the main targets.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 52,314 Palestinians and wounded 117,792 others, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. The Gaza Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
Israeli forces arrest Palestinian journalist in occupied West Bank
Local sources told Al Jazeera that the Israeli army arrested journalist Ali al-Samoudi, who was taken from his home in Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.
Al-Samoudi was injured in the same attack when the Israeli army killed Al Jazeera’s correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin in May 2022.
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At least four people killed in Israeli attack on southern Gaza
We are receiving reports from our colleagues that an overnight Israeli air raid has killed at least four people, including three children, in an attack on a camp for displaced Palestinians near Khan Younis.
At least 40 injured people were carried in ambulances to the Nasser Medical Complex, they said.
Over 65,000 Gaza children face acute malnutrition: Media Office
Gaza’s Government Media Office has accused Israel of exacerbating Palestinian children’s suffering through its ongoing blockade, which has led to widespread acute malnutrition affecting more than 65,000 hospitalised children out of 1.1 million facing daily hunger.
Israel is “using starvation and thirst as systematic weapons of war against civilians, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law”, it said in a statement.
The statement added that “the continuous closure of border crossings has caused a catastrophic deterioration in health conditions, especially among children and infants”.
The office placed full responsibility on Israel for the worsening humanitarian disaster and for “endangering the lives of hundreds of thousands of children, women and elderly people due to the lack of food, medicine and clean water”.
Since March 2, Israel has maintained the closure of Gaza’s main crossings, cutting off food, medical and humanitarian supplies, leading to an unprecedented deterioration of humanitarian conditions, according to reports by human rights organisations.
Palestinians, mostly children, wait in a long queue with empty pots in their hands to get food aid distributed by the charity organisations at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza City, Gaza on April 28, 2025 [Mahmoud İssa/Anadolu] - 29m ago(06:50 GMT)
WATCH: At least 44 Palestinians in Gaza killed since dawn on Monday
Israeli air strikes across Gaza: At least 44 Palestinians killed since dawn on Monday - 34m ago(06:45 GMT)
Amnesty accuses Israel of ‘livestreamed genocide’ against Gaza Palestinians
Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing a “livestreamed genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza by forcibly displacing most of the population and deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe.
Israeli forces in Gaza have violated the United Nations Genocide Convention with acts that include “causing serious bodily or mental harm to civilians” and “deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction”, the human rights organisation said in its annual report.
Israel has repeatedly “denied, obstructed and failed to allow and facilitate” humanitarian access to Gaza, and invaded the southern city of Rafah, despite warnings by the international community and the International Court of Justice about the “devastating effect it would have on the civilian population”, it added.
For the full report, read here.
A Palestinian boy stands amid the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli attack on the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on April 27, 2025 [Eyad Baba/AFP]
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